Re: controlling character entity transformations in Jade

[Daniel Speck <dspeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robin Stephenson wrote:

> I'm transforming SGML from one DTD to another with Jade.  I was
> pleased to see Jade putting in literal equivalents for things like
> é and so on, but it seems to be transforming some things to
> Unicode, eg ` ' is transformed to `&8201;'.
>   The thing (one of many things, in fact) that's confusing me is
> I'm including the (unedited) ISOpub entities in the output DTD, so I
> thought that ` ' would be mapped to `[thinsp]':
>
> <!ENTITY thinsp SDATA "[thinsp]"--=thin space (1/6-em)-->
>
>   How can I tell Jade not to do this?

Jade currently does not support the SDATA entity mapping facilities
described in the DSSSL standard.

There is a non-standard inherited characteristic called preserve-sdata?
that can be used with the SGML backend. You need to declare it as follows
before using it:(declare-characteristic preserve-sdata?
"UNREGISTERED::James Clark//Characteristic::preserve-sdata?"
  #t)

This will preserve all SDATA entity references, not just the ones you want
to preserve.

-dan

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